Sentence of Dave

It was really hard to feign excitement when the boys ran into the house and shoved a yogurt container under my nose and said:"Hey Dad, ...

You know how sometimes you go on the internet for one reason (to look up how to marinate octopus before you grill it) but you end up doing s...

Yesterday, I finished teaching Henry James' ambiguous ghost story "The Turn of the Screw" and I also finished reading The Loo...

Airborne . . . created by a school teacher?

I agreed to dog-sit two dogs over Memorial Day Weekend -- Norman and Sniffer -- essentially turning our house into a dog park, and though th...

Lawrence Wright's dense and definitive book  The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 is full of disturbing stuff  (and I'm ...

Though I doubt many of you care, I beat Dan (the Unbeatable Dan) on Thursday night: I shot an 8 in the 9th to beat him by two -- 42 to 40...

One of the most disturbing things I have learned while reading Lawrence Wright's book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9-11  ...

This idea is even better than my Second Best Idea Ever  but I should warn you that it is also soccer related; one of the biggest problems wi...

I was thoroughly entertained by the dysfunctional crew in David O'Russell's movie Silver Linings Playbook  -- despite the fact th...

For the most part, my fellow colleagues in the English Department aren't terribly diverse, but we do have a lovely Jamaican woman nam...

I showed my friend John this charcoal drawing my seven-year-old son Ian made and he said to me: "He's a talented kid . . . wha...

I attended the Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus again last week (the last time I went was almost exactly three years ago) and whil...

My seven year old son Ian, who generally plays it close to his vest, told me this unsolicited piece of information: "Ben is my closest ...

This article is hysterical.

I should probably point out that I am more sympathetic to my son Alex's behavior on the bus  than my wife is, because I succumbed to pee...

Wired Magazine explains why television is better than it ever has been  . . . and the Netflix original series House of Cards is certain...

I finished Henry James' ambiguously supernatural novel Turn of the Screw Sunday morning and not an hour later, while walking back from o...

In class right now, we are studying the ethical implications of some classic psychological experiments . . . Milgram, Asch, and Stanford pri...

Wednesday night, my seven year old son Ian made an observation and then reacted to his observation, all in the same sentence: "We have ...